Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Submitted by AnthonyHorvath on Thu, 07/11/2019 - 22:23

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From this Saturday at 2am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 7am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day , it’s the described movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from 1969.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film).
Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the " Sundance Kid " (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies.
The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia in search of a more successful criminal career.
In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The American Film Institute ranked Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the 73rd-greatest American film on its " AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)" list.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were ranked 20th greatest heroes on " AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains".
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was selected by the American Film Institute as the 7th greatest Western of all time in the AFI's 10 Top 10 list in 2008.
Directed by: George Roy Hill.
Produced by: John Foreman.
Written by: William Goldman.
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey and Henry Jones.
Music by: Burt Bacharach.
Cinematography: Conrad Hall.
Edited by: John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer.
Production company: Campanile Productions and Newman-Foreman Company.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox.
Release date: 24 October, 1969.
Running time: 110 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $6 million.
Box office: $102.3 million (North America).
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